Firefox Sync 1.5 now available
We’re very happy to announce the availability of version 1.5 of the Firefox Sync add-on. This release has several changes that make it easier to set up Sync for first time users. We have also made some...
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Setting up Firefox Sync Just Got a Lot Easier
Firefox Sync is a built-in feature of Firefox 4 Beta that brings Firefox browsing history, boomarks, open tabs and passwords across all of your devices. Secure *and* easy to use We designed Firefox...
View ArticleMailing List Changes
As a long-overdue part of the evolution of Weave into Mozilla Services, we are retiring a number of older Mozilla Labs lists, and creating some new lists with different aims and audiences. This means...
View ArticleGet Syncing with Firefox 4
With Firefox 4, we’re very excited to be bringing Sync as an integrated feature available right in the browser – no add-on required. Sync enables you to take your bookmarks, passwords, history and open...
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Firefox Sync on your Android
If you’ve just installed Firefox 4 on your Android phone, be sure to set up its must-have feature, Sync. Sync enables you to bring your bookmarks, passwords, history and even open tabs from all of your...
View ArticleEnabling Quotas for Firefox Sync
This generally won’t affect users, but we wanted to be open about a change that will be deployed soon for our production servers. Essentially, we’re going to be defining a per-user disk quota for...
View ArticleIntroducing Project Sagrada
Project Sagrada is a Services project to build a solid and stable platform to develop new and highly scalable services and applications to support Mozilla’s mission. The initial goal is to make it easy...
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Focusing on the integrated Firefox Sync experience
Today we are announcing the end of official support for the Firefox Sync add-on, focusing resources on improving and supporting the Sync experience for those users in the latest versions of Firefox....
View ArticleAdd-on Sync Coming to Firefox
We strive to make your online experience better and we have a new feature in the latest Firebox Beta we think you’ll love: add-on sync. Add-on sync does what its name implies: it synchronizes add-ons...
View ArticleRetiring Firefox Home
From the early days, Mozilla has been focused on empowering users across platforms and devices. We released Firefox Home as an experiment in bringing a part of the Firefox experience to iOS, focusing...
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Implementing cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) for Cornice
This article is the first technical one on the Mozilla services blog. Expect to read more technical content here in the future. We have been using our respective blogs so far to publish content, but...
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Introducing Heka
We here on the Mozilla Services team are happy to announce our first beta release (v0.2b1) of Heka, a tool for high performance data gathering, analysis, monitoring, and reporting. Heka’s main...
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Heka 0.3 released
Those of us here on Mozilla Service’s Heka team were very pleased by the positive response and interest generated by our initial announcement about the project. And we’re even more pleased by the fact...
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Introducing the Mozilla Location Service
The Mozilla Location Service is an experimental pilot project to provide geolocation lookups based on publicly observable cell tower and WiFi access point information. Currently in its early stages, it...
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Heka 0.4: Dashing through your data
The Mozila Services team is happy to announce the release of Heka 0.4, the latest version of our logs and metrics processing platform. We’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and adding features (see the...
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Circus 0.10 released
I am very happy to announce the release of Circus 0.10. Circus is a process & socket manager we’ve been developing at Cloud Services to supervise our different processes on our servers It is built...
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A Better Firefox Sync
We’re pleased to announce that the new version of Firefox Sync is available to test in Firefox Aurora. Current Firefox Sync users love the service, but have given us feedback that it wasn’t easy enough...
View ArticleHeka v0.5 Released
The last few months have been bustling here in Heka-land. Our community of users and contributors has been growing steadily, and real world use is paying off in feedback and pull requests. Those of us...
View ArticleSane Concurrency with Go
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote an enlightening post recently in which he expounds in some detail about the challenges of writing highly concurrent software. If you write software and you haven’t read it yet I...
View ArticleHeka: Loading log files with Logstreamer
Heka is a general purpose data processing tool, so it supports a variety of ways to get data into its processing pipeline. But, loading and parsing files from a filesystem is the primary use case for...
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